dilettantenoun [ C ]
uk/ˌdɪl.əˈtæn.ti/us/ˌdɪl.əˈtæn.ti/plural dilettanti dilettantes usually disapprovinga person who is or seems to be interested in a subject, but whose understanding of it is not very deep or serious:
He's a bit of a dilettante as far as wine is concerned.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Inexperienced people and lack of experience
- beginner
- blind
- freshman
- functional illiterate
- greenhorn
- in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king idiom
- know
- laywoman
- lightweight
- neophyte
- newcomer
- not know the meaning of the word idiom
- rookie
- stranger
- the blind leading the blind idiom
- the uninitiated
- tyro
- upstart
- virgin
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